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I've got some builders in doing the kitchen, and they want payment in cash. Apart from the risk of carrying round thousands of pounds, isn't this somewhat unethical? Should I insist they take a cheque? Am I opening up myself to problems in the future? Any suggestions?

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After a few fallow years our firm is once again in the market for a handful of graduates to join our new management development programme. Is a first class degree always the best indicator when recruiting graduates? What other attributes should we be looking for in determining whether a candidate will fit in our organisation?

Clive Woodall says that he sometimes feels like David Beckham. Not because he swapped being a manager at Sainsbury's for life as a full-time author after his first book, One for Sorrow, was sold to Disney. But because someone pays him to do something he loves. He talks to Sandra Deeble.